Issued by Clearwisdom Net

My name is Sun Chongzhen. I am a 41-year-old woman. While I was clarifying the truth about Falun Gong at Liang Dian in Junan County, Shandong Province on July 11, 2003, I was reported and arrested. I was sent to Jinan City Women's Forced Labor Camp by a 610 Office agent in Junan County on August 1, 2003. Since then I have suffered three years of persecution at the labor camp.

Right after the officers arrested me, while in the vehicle, they started kicking and hitting me. During the ensuing interrogation, I refused to cooperate and did not tell them my name and address [Note: Because of the Chinese Communist Party's practice of implicating and harassing family members and work units of Falun Gong practitioners, practitioners often refuse to give their names when they are arrested, in order to protect their families and associates]. They brutally kicked me and hit me again and forbade me to use the bathroom. They sent me to the Junan Detention Center and stripped me for a body search.

On July 13, 2003, I was handcuffed and tied to a metal chair by agents from the 610 Office. As I refused to cooperate with them, they brutally kicked my legs and tried to force me to tell my name. I was tortured for three days. They tried to force me to provide my fingerprints, and photographed me. When I did not cooperate, they had criminal inmates hold my arms and kick me.

Finally, a guard from the village where my mother lives reported my name and I was sent to the Jinan City Women's Forced Labor Camp on August 1, 2003. The Dadian Town head and agents from the 610 Office said, "You always say Falun Gong is good and tell how you benefited from it. Now it's your chance to really taste the benefits of practicing Falun Gong."

The police bribed the labor camp to finish all the paperwork. They then attempted to force me to sign the documents and fingerprint them. I did not cooperate. Without any formal paperwork issued, I was sent into a demon's den. The guards locked me in a small cell every day and forbade me to meet anyone. They forced me to watch TV programs slandering Falun Gong. They found some former practitioners who had gone against Falun Gong to tell me lies. Guards including Wang Shuzhen wrote a guarantee statement and attempted to force me to sign and fingerprint it. I didn't follow their orders. A group of guards then held me down. Some of them pulled my hands to put my fingerprint on the statement. After that, they forced me to do work for at least 12 hours per day. Sometimes, they made me work overtime, until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m.

On December 23, 2004, I refused to follow the order to do prison exercises. Guard Sun Juan made a phone call to Group Head Liu Yuqin. Four guards, including Deputy Group Head Sun Qunli tortured me in the file room. I clarified the truth to them. Liu Yuqin slammed my head into a wall and I lost consciousness. They then handcuffed me to a heating pipe with one hand up and one hand down. When I came to, Sun Qunli said that I was faking it.

I was handcuffed for six days and was forbidden to wash myself or wear warm clothes. When I finally got a jacket, the guards would not unlock my handcuffs; therefore, I could only put on one sleeve. When eating and drinking, I could only use one hand. I asked for a pair of pants, but because I was handcuffed so low, I couldn't pull the pants up. The pants only sat on my hips. When it was cold my hands hurt and when they turned on the heat my hands were burning.

The guards slandered Master Li, Falun Gong and me every day. These perpetrators persecuted me in this way for countless days.

During the night of April 22, 2005, when the guards returned to the dorm from a meeting, practitioner Du Yifeng would not cooperate with the guards by saying "Present." Guards Sun Juan and Xiao Ying pulled Du Yifeng to a solitary confinement cell. Du Yifeng shouted. The guards then forced everyone to sit.

I was worried about Du Yifeng and didn't follow the guards' orders. Guards Geng Xiaomei, Sun Juan and Xiao Ying forced me to say practitioner Du was wrong for not saying "Present." If I didn't comply, they would send me to a solitary confinement cell and would prevent me from using the bathroom. I didn't listen to them so they decided to pull me into a solitary confinement cell. I held onto a bed and they couldn't pull me away. They called Group Head Liu Yuqin and Tian E from the Management Section and two male guards. The seven guards then handcuffed me to a heating pipe in the television room, with one hand as high as possible and the other hand as low as possible.

After being handcuffed for two days, I was experiencing additional tribulations and had diarrhea. I asked to use the bathroom. I asked every time the guards came by. Li Yu tried to take advantage of my request to force me to cooperate with them. They didn't let me go to the bathroom until 8:00 a.m. the next morning. Liu Yuqin didn't leave me alone after she had unlocked my handcuffs. She wanted to see if I truly had diarrhea. After I returned [from the toilet] they handcuffed me to the stairs for one day.

After four or five days, Du Yifeng's and my feet were swollen and red. We couldn't put our shoes on any more. Liu Yuqin forced Du Yifeng to read materials slandering Falun Gong but Ms. Du tore them up. Liu Yuqing then locked Du Yifeng in a bathroom and sent me to a solitary confinement cell. This time, another practitioner named Deng Liangcun was also locked up and persecuted in a solitary confinement cell for several days.

On June 8, guard Geng Xiaomei made practitioner Chen Yuhua and me pack, and go to the 5th Group (the Strict Discipline Team). Guard Wang Shuzhen ordered us to say "Present." I didn't say it. The guards searched our things and threw clothes, napkins and papers all over the floor. Guard Liu Xia held onto my clothes to search for Master Li's lectures and then confiscated all of my daily necessities.

There were eight practitioners in Squad 3. None of us cooperated with the guards. Sixty-year-old practitioner Liu Xiaorong shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" She was dragged into a solitary confinement cell and locked in there for three days before she was transferred to Squad 8.

This time, criminal inmates were watching us. We were forbidden to open windows or doors or turn on fans. We were forbidden to use the public bathrooms. We were further forbidden to meet with anyone and were only permitted to wash our clothes once a month. We had to pre-wash the clothes in our cell and others rinsed them outside for us. Between June 8 and August 3, 2005, I only washed my hair once.

We resisted the persecution and refused to wear the prison uniform. Guard Wang Shuzhen incited the inmates to remove practitioners' clothes. Practitioner Liu Jingmei threw the uniform in water. Guard Wang Shuzhen took it out and urged the inmates to put it on Liu Jingmei. We went on a hunger strike to protest the persecution.

Four days later, the guards dragged me into the hallway. I shouted, "Falun Dafa is good!" They couldn't stop me by gagging me with towels, so they put their hands in my mouth and scratched me. My mouth was bloody. They held onto my feet and dragged me to the prison doctor's office, to force-feed me. They tied my hands and feet to a bed. I suffered so much during the brutal forced-feeding that I vomited and made a mess on myself. Guard Wang Shuzhen pushed against my abdomen with her legs, and with one hand pulled my hair and with the other pressed down on my jaw. Deputy Group Head Wand Yuerao stepped on my genitals. The pain almost made me lose consciousness.

My stomach hurt after the force-feeding, and I began to vomit again. The guards gagged me with towels, almost suffocating me. They pulled my hair out and much of it was all over the floor. For the third time, Wang Shuzhen tied me to the bed and pulled my hair toward the headboard and pushed my head down. She force-fed me half a bowl of powdered milk along with two spoonfuls of salt. She left the feeding tube in. The guards kept me tied up for a total of 28 days. Out of the 28 days, I was tied up day and night for 11 days and I was only permitted to remain in one position to sleep.

Another time guard Wang Yuerao purposely gave me a hard time. I refused to cooperate. She then forbade the inmates who were responsible for watching me to sleep, along with me. The inmates were trying hard to reduce their sentences. They tortured me brutally. It was another sleepless night. Early the next day, guard Wang Shuzhen ordered me to carry a sewing machine. I didn't follow her order so she cursed at me again.

On October 21, 2005, the guards transferred me to Group Six and tortured me ruthlessly. Practitioner Chen Yuhua and I were locked in the same northern cell. Chen Yuhua went on a hunger strike. After four days she became very weak and was dragged out to be force-fed. I never saw her or heard from her again after that.

Guard Wang Shuzhen used the excuse of checking hygiene in the cells and forced me to sit on a small stool 13 cm high and 10 cm wide without moving around. She forbade me to use the bathroom.

Sometimes people from the Procuratorate came to inspect. The guards forbade me to say anything about the abuse. I spoke with those people about the situation in the labor camp. They usually said, "You can write letters. I'll resolve it."

But after I spent a long time to finally write a report, guard Wang Liping took it away.

Another time, two new inmates were assigned to monitor me. We ate food from the same bowl. They were suddenly told one day not to eat or drink any more. A physical checkup was arranged for the next day. They were scared because they knew that two inmates in Group Four had been released because of having hepatitis. They thought they were being segregated and thought they had gotten the disease themselves as well. I told them not to worry because if it were truly the case, they wouldn't still be here. The guards then changed all the utensils and made everyone take medicine for a week to prevent the disease, but they told the inmates that it was for sunstroke prevention. I didn't take the medicine. They cursed me again.

The guards used the inmates to brutally persecute me so the inmates could get their sentences reduced. The inmates did not let me move. If I moved they would kick me and hit me ruthlessly. One day they tried to tear my clothes off to force me to change into a prison uniform. I fought back and they weren't successful. In retaliation they forbade me to wash my clothes or have a bowel movement. Usually they let me go to the bathroom once a day. This time they would not let me go for five days. At last, they were afraid of something unexpected happening to me, so they let me go in a bag in my cell and took it out.

Not seeing the sunlight all day, without any freedom, listening to the guards and inmates slandering Falun Gong every day, was such a suffering. The guards forbade us to open the windows or doors. There were no fans in the summer. They tied us up, kicked us, and verbally abused us and restricted our toilet use. Such persecution and abuse! The guards threatened the inmates who monitored me not to say anything to the outside world. Otherwise, they would have their sentences extended.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/3/31/151881.html

A  person risked his/her life to take this picture. Here are three terribly beaten Falun Gong practitioners behind bars. Do not look only at their swollen, bloodstained, and disfigured faces, but see also the peaceful, calm confidence in their eyes, an expression of their firm belief in the truth of the universe. Our sincere thanks to the righteous person who took this history-making picture documenting the evil nature of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

The identities of the three have been confirmed as middle school teachers Mr. Yang Yufeng, Ms. Yang Shifang, and Ms. Sui Jingmei from the Shouguang Experimental Middle School in Shandong Province. The picture was taken a few days after they were tortured. They suffered this kind of inhumane torture only because they wouldn't give up their belief in "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance."

Mr. Yang Yufeng, Ms. Yang Shifang, and Ms. Sui Jingmei went to Beijing to appeal for Falun Gong during the summer of 2000. At midnight they were grabbed by authorities and transported back to the school. They were detained behind bars in a small room already prepared for them. They all ate, slept, and eliminated in the same room. All the school leaders were part of this persecution.

The following day, the former principal, Zhang Chunhe; the driver, Wu Ruixian; and the security director, Zhang Peifeng, hired four gangsters just out of prison at the labor market. The three practitioners passed out many times due to the beatings at the hands of these hired gangsters. These teachers received no salaries during the 50 days they were illegally detained, but the gangsters were paid.

During that time, the school administration placed the playground off limits to keep the teachers and students from seeing the practitioners. Any food and water left by sympathizers was taken by the school. Many sympathetic students hated the authorities for what was going on .

The three teachers suffered severe and unrelenting torture both physically and mentally during their detention. At first the school refused to release them no matter what. When the school finally agreed to let them go, the former Education Bureau director, Zhang Wennan, refused to agree. The teachers were kept until they could not move anymore.

Shouguang Experimental Middle was divided into two schools during the last six months of 2000. The high school students were moved to the current Modern Middle School, while the junior high students remained. In June 2005, the 610 Office from Shouguang City came to seize teacher Mr. Yang Yufeng. They took his computer and books with the complete cooperation of principal Li Zhengping and other school leaders. Mr. Yang and his wife were detained in the city's detention center for one month. Later that year, Mr. Yang was sent to the heinous Wangcun Forced Labor Camp for two years, while his wife, Yang Shifang, was sent to the nefarious Weifang Brainwashing Center.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/3/13/150697.html

Falun Gong practitioner Mr. Zhang Weijie from Wuhan City has been missing since March 20, 2007. His wife has been searching for him everywhere. She eventually went to the Huaqiao Street 610 Office and the Jiang'an District 610 Office to inquire about her husband's whereabouts. The head of the Jiang'an District 610 Office, Li Yingjie, first said that her husband was sent to a brainwashing center, but later he totally denied that claim. Zhang Weijie's wife got very anxious. She worried that her husband might have become a victim of organ harvesting. She called Wuhan City Mayoral hotline to seek help. After that, Li Yingjie acknowledged that Zhang Weijie was detained in a brainwashing center, but he denied that the Jiang'an District 610 Office had arrested him. He said it was the higher authorities that had arrested Zhang Weijie and that he didn't know Zhang Weijie's exact whereabouts.

On March 30, Mr. Zhang's wife went to Wuhan City 610 Office to inquire about his whereabouts and find out the reason he was arrested. She also asked the 610 Office to release him unconditionally. A woman named Zhao, who works in Wuhan City 610 Office, talked to Mr. Zhang's wife. She said that the 610 Office had arrested Zhang Weijie secretly because they worried that if he wasn't "transformed," he would influence more Falun Gong practitioners to "cause trouble." Zhang Weijie's wife was very angry. She pointed out clearly that this was organized crime committed by the government.

Zhao then called Li Yingjie to come and "solve the problem." Two cars arrived and four men and one woman got out. None of them was Li Yingjie. One pretended to be Li Yingjie and told Zhang Weijie's wife, "If you want to see Zhang Weijie now, we can take you to see him." She knew they were trying to deceive her, so she refused to go with them. Then the person who pretended to be Li Yingjie threatened her, "You already know that Zhang Weijie is in the brainwashing center. Do not look for him anymore."

Zhang Weijie's wife searched for her husband everywhere for a week. She knows that her husband was arrested by Wuhan City 610 Office, in collusion with the 1st Division of Wuhan City Police Department, but she still does not know exactly where he is.

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/4/2/152020.html

Weining Forced Labor Camp, located in the Mingshan District in Benxi City, Liaoning Province, currently detains about 20 to 30 Falun Gong practitioners from the areas of Anshan, Tieling, Dandong, Jinzhou, Panjin, Yinkou, and other places. The labor camp conducts brutal brainwashing and "transformation" activities.

The so-called "legal center" in the Weining Forced Labor Camp has implemented various cruel measures to carry out high-pressure brainwashing and "transformation." For example, on the first day in the "legal center" a newcomer first has to go through the so-called "talk," from early in the morning to late at night. One is confronted with nonstop attacks such as slander, threats, and temptations, coming from the guards or collaborators, one after another. This kind of treatment goes on for days and nights with the help of videos attacking Falun Gong. Practitioners were not given one moment of peace, let alone sleep. They had people following them even when they used the toilet. Some practitioners could not take these relentless attacks of misleading concepts and ideas, and they gave up the practice or were "transformed." The guards utilized collaborator to physically attack and walk on practitioners, who were roped and bound with their legs crossed with a flat board on top. The guards would sometimes force a male and female practitioner to embrace each other while bound in that position.

A more brutal torture involved tying up a practitioner face up or down with his or her four limbs spread eagled on a bed for 15 to 20 days. They had to eat on the bed and were not even allowed up to use the toilet. When finally released, they were unable to walk, even for short distances.

Labor Camp Director Liu Shaoshi, formerly the director of the health department, nicknamed "Little Ghost Liu," was fired from his post because of his extreme corruption. At this time, the Chinese Communist Party had just begun to persecute practitioners nationwide. The drug rehabilitation center in the camp was converted to a special center for detaining practitioners. The vicious Liu Shaoshi seized the opportunity and became the director of this newly established center. He deceived practitioners and their families with false kindness and feigned compassion, as part of his process of "transforming" practitioners.

Section Chief Zheng Tao always used excuses to increase non-"transformed" practitioners' sentences in order to achieve his own goals by means of threats and incentives. Assistant Camp Director Guo Tieying threatened steadfast practitioners every day. They both utilized collaborator to torment practitioners. For example, practitioner Mr. Li Guangwen, a college graduate, 40 years old and still single, was sexually taunted by a woman who even took a stool and sat in front of Li Guangwen, forehead touching forehead, embracing his neck. Then she said shamelessly, "Let's see how strong your desire for the lust."

Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2007/4/3/152070.html

By a Falun Gong Practitioner from Shenyang City

The Women's Prison of Liaoning Province is located in Prison City in Shenyang in the Masanjia area. It is a living hell that persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. The administrators and guards lack both humanity and morals in their treatment of practitioners. Every practitioner is stripped and searched upon entering or leaving. The authorities are afraid that their criminal treatment of practitioners will be exposed, so they tightly block information from leaving the prison.

Ms. Zhang Shuxia, a practitioner from the government of the Heping District in Shenyang City, was detained in the Liaoning Province Women's Prison. She was illegally arrested and taken there in December 2005. She was not allowed to sleep, and was brutally beaten by vicious inmates and guards every day. Two bones in her back were broken due to the beatings. Ms. Zhang once passed out while being shocked with an electric baton by Zhang Xiuli, the team leader of the Re-education Branch. Sometimes the guards cuffed both of her hands to a radiator and beat her violently. The guards also handcuffed her arms behind her back, then stood and faced her about four meters away. They repeatedly pushed and kicked her to the opposite sides of the room. They tortured her like this until she sustained injuries all over her head and body.

From December 2005 to the summer of 2006, they tortured Zhang Shuxia every day. Because I left this prison in the summer of 2006, I do not know what happened to Ms. Zhang afterwards. The guards who mistreated her included Zhang Xiuli, leader of the 7th Group and Dong Fang, director of the discipline section. Inmates who participated in abusing Zhang Shuxia included Wang Chunjiao and Miao Guangxia.

I also witnessed the terrible persecution of a practitioner from Fushun. Since the malicious inmates surrounding her did not allow her to talk, I do not know her name. She was treated with inhuman cruelty and brutality. One day as she was walking on the road, the guards hit her and she fell to the ground. She could not get up because her head was seriously injured. Her head was already wrapped by layers of white cloth, due to a previous injury. The guards then dragged her by her hair down the road. After enduring such brutal treatment for as long as one year, this practitioner passed away.

The Liaoning Province Women's Prison forced practitioners to work from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. They were forced to do hard labor every day. For 365 days a year, practitioners were only given a 100-gram piece of cornbread filled with sand per day. The so-called "soup" always had a layer of black grease floating on top, which smelled disgusting. The way they treated practitioners who did not give up the practice of Falun Gong was even worse. Every practitioner was surrounded by five or six of the most vicious inmates and was not allowed to talk. If they did, they would be violently beaten. In the course of the day, they were only allowed to go to bathroom once. Food sent from home was either confiscated by guards or thrown away.

The above is just a small sampling of the persecution experienced by practitioners in the Prison.